VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

I've got a WebBrowser control (AxBrowse - VCMAXB.DLL) and I'm having a few
difficulties with it. Just looking for a few pointers, not whole solutions
here. I've tried looking at the MSDN help files with little success.
- When a new window is trying to pop up, how do I determine the ...

Maybe this is known, but it was new to me when I first heard of
it (and saw it in action) this week.
The MonthView control seems to contain an undocumented "feature":
a timer that causes the SelChange event to fire every 120

I have a contract developer who is using his own laptop to work on one
of our projects.  When he gets the code from VSS, all of the degree
symbols (°) in the code get converted to question marks.  I've checked
his visual studio font settings, and it is set to Courier New.  He is

I want to make a small app to backup my accounting program. Since not all
files change every day, and the total of them is too many, i want to copy
only the newly created (do not exist in backup folder) and the changed ones.
The others should be left intact.

I am currently using VB 4.0 with WindowsXP Home Edition and would like to
continue to use it and also use Visual Basic.net
The help file states that "Windows XP Home Edition provides limited
functionality. Creating Web applications or XML Web services is not

...or just slow because of the things it does?
it has to read in a text file, then fill an array with the words. this array
of words (wrds) is then read over and over to find the unique words (i.e
those that occur only once). the unique words are added to a collection

I'm working on a project and I need help with the listboxes. I will have
potentially several thousand items put into a listbox, and I need two things:
The ability for the user to be able to sort the data by dragging a list item
within the listbox, and also to be able to drag a list ...

Hi, I've been asked to develop an application, which contains two
programs. One sits on a Internet server, and looks for incomming files
(this computer, sits outside our firewall). The other program sits on
another server inside the firewall, and is supposed to process the

i have a form with some control like textbox,listview,....
i want to know if there is anyway to handle all kuser key press in a
single way?
for example if user on mainform pressed F12 execute a particular

I 'd like to make Button.Width according to a variable length
Button.Caption, but how know the just Width, attending that some characters
( i,w...) does'nt have the same width, then it's not possible to calculate
precisionly width by using Caption string length.

Ok, here is an easy one... so easy that I've got my mind all boogled up from
thrashing around with it...
I have an array, some 100 items, and this array holds items that are created
during run time. As the items are created they are added to the array (makes

I'm looking for a way to convert a user defined type, of variable
length, to a byte array.
Also, I need to be able to convert it back to a UDT.
I have a kludge (below) involving an intermediate file but I'm hoping

I'm bored and out of beer, so I slapped together this
Stack class... It takes VB's discrete datatypes and
userdefined classes, and comes with:
   pop(), push(), top(), bottom(), length() & size()

Does anyone have a tip for me on how to do this in VB6?  We have a form that
requires data input before the program can place an order and we don't want
the form to be closed until we can validate it.

Gentlemen,
   I realize this question is fundamental so maybe someone can explain what
I'm to do... Here's the code:
Private Sub cmdListShipTos_Click()